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so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment climate is very much underrated, and we are doing much better than some of late. at the same time, also when it comes to russian economy we have enjoyed previous -- [inaudible] fiscal environment. we have accumulated significant reserves. we have two funds, one sovereign fund which is about 40 -- $84 billion and another reserve fund that is another $80-miss -- $80-plus billion. and the national reserves are 500 plus billion dollars as well. we are almost debt-free country because our external debt is no more than 2.5% and including internal debt is around 10, 11%. if you compare it with t
so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment...
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zero lower bound and, i hope, you know, at a reasonable period of time we'll be in a more monetary environment. >> on that international theme, you talked about the tripartheid roles of macroprudential regulation, lender of last resort and we look around the globe, the regulatory policies are in some cases done by an organization which is not the central bank. do you see there as being a strong case for bringing that role inside the central bank, or can you see circumstances in which it works to have the macro prudential part in a distinct organization? >> well, different, different countries have different kinds of financial structures as jean claude was saying, europe and the u.s. are different in many ways, etc. but as you look around the world, the trend now, of course, is for financial regulatory activities, financial oversight activities to move back into central banks. i mean, that's happening in europe, that's happening in the u.k., it's happening in the united states. and i think there's good reason for that. one very simple reason is that central banks tend to have the kind of expert
zero lower bound and, i hope, you know, at a reasonable period of time we'll be in a more monetary environment. >> on that international theme, you talked about the tripartheid roles of macroprudential regulation, lender of last resort and we look around the globe, the regulatory policies are in some cases done by an organization which is not the central bank. do you see there as being a strong case for bringing that role inside the central bank, or can you see circumstances in which it...
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everybody cares about the environment but they care about their personal environment remember reagan said people are part of the ecosystem, too and this balanced record he presented, i think, provides great hope for the future, and that's why people need to learn the less-lesson. if you love reagan, you'll love "sage brush rebel." >> thank you very much. [applause] >> what are you reading? >> i have a couple of good books. i keep going back and fort to different ones. 1861, about the first year of the civil war. and 1863 now and what's happening in gettysburg, we just covered that battle. but getting a sense of what was happening during 1861, the first shots fired at fort sumpter, and all the behind the scenes going on there at the time. what was happening around the country as it pertained to slavery and other issues, obviously, and during that time as well, leading up to the emancipation proclamation. and the lincoln administration. fast floating, about 100 years of fire and rain, great book about 1969 and 1970, about the breakup of the beatles. about the emergence of james taylor,
everybody cares about the environment but they care about their personal environment remember reagan said people are part of the ecosystem, too and this balanced record he presented, i think, provides great hope for the future, and that's why people need to learn the less-lesson. if you love reagan, you'll love "sage brush rebel." >> thank you very much. [applause] >> what are you reading? >> i have a couple of good books. i keep going back and fort to different...
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i certainly share your concern about the internal mcleary environment in russia. as i said at the outset i agree with you as well that wherever we can as we try to do we have to try to work with russian our common interests and we have had success in that regard particularly on foreign-policy issues that we share. with regard to our support for democratic change and reform for those speaking out for a pluralistic society we have to despise the environment continue to work with the russians who are willing to work with us. we are not able to support them as fully and we still need to make support available in other ways and i will if confirmed he eager to work with all of you on the committee to look for more ways to do that. in addition we have to speak out as you said and as i said in my opening when we disagree and we have to work more intensively and more cohesively with our european allies and partners because when we speak together our concerns are even stronger. see let me ask you one question about the trade agreement. how worried are you about the ability
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you are taken out of that structured environment and you go off to school or looking for a job and it is not just the military needs worry about it. when you look at the aggregate numbers of unemployment among veterans and you see it is high in unemployment numbers, then you know that there is something wrong about the way we are dealing with veterans in the way we are trying to help the veterans after they finish their service. >> host: back to your book, "the guns at last light: the war in western europe, 1944-1945". it is estimated that in december 1, 8000 american deserters roamed with another 10,000 british. the equivalent of a division of military people were often joining forces with local marketeers to peddle items from his own army trucks. hundreds of such vehicles vanish every day for $5000. >> guest: there was a lot of bad behavior. there is no doubt about it. it is important to recognize that all the brothers were valiant. that is not how human nature works. whether you are you're in the army or out of the army. you know, there were 23,000 deserters in world war ii. thousa
you are taken out of that structured environment and you go off to school or looking for a job and it is not just the military needs worry about it. when you look at the aggregate numbers of unemployment among veterans and you see it is high in unemployment numbers, then you know that there is something wrong about the way we are dealing with veterans in the way we are trying to help the veterans after they finish their service. >> host: back to your book, "the guns at last light:...
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a state organizes the policy environment for that finance and delivery. there, again, i think they have different effects. >> but if you give 100 to the state to care for somebody, and the state give $90s to the burns plan. >> 100% of the cost were there capitation and who wrote the bill. i would agree it's not the same. that's not how i see the program. >> okay. it may be an issue of perception. i yield back. >> the chair thank the gentleman. did you want to respond to the remarks regarding reforms? i apologize if she had to leave. i want to give you an opportunity to respond quickly, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity. in my testimony, i referred to the florida reform pilot. the facts, clear. the florida reform pilot outperformed in 64 percent the cases. it higher level of patient sphoox. perhaps the best validation of how this approach of pay centered pro patient protaxpayer is working the fact that the obama administration approved the waiver. t a proven bipartisan approach that saves money, improves health, and produces
a state organizes the policy environment for that finance and delivery. there, again, i think they have different effects. >> but if you give 100 to the state to care for somebody, and the state give $90s to the burns plan. >> 100% of the cost were there capitation and who wrote the bill. i would agree it's not the same. that's not how i see the program. >> okay. it may be an issue of perception. i yield back. >> the chair thank the gentleman. did you want to respond to...
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this is a very unforgiving environment. lincoln said he had an axe put in the happened almost at once and handled that most useful instrument until about the age 23. one of the great irony of lincoln's life is that he didn't like axes. he didn't like splitting rails. even though we know him as the rail splitter. he wanted to escape this unforgiving environment. his mother, at the very young age, and aunt and uncle came down with something called milk sick. a cow would wander to the forest. eat poison weeds. the milk would become poisoned. you would drink the milk and die a horrible death in a week. it happens to his mom about 8 or so. he has to fashion the wood coffin with his father to bury her. there's no one to give the sermon. eventually someone, a minister happened by the area, you know, months later, and his sister would die in childbirth, which was not uncommon, and lincoln's family of upset about this. thought the inlaws didn't do enough to help her. the inlaws said, we wanted to help her, but the nearest doctor was
this is a very unforgiving environment. lincoln said he had an axe put in the happened almost at once and handled that most useful instrument until about the age 23. one of the great irony of lincoln's life is that he didn't like axes. he didn't like splitting rails. even though we know him as the rail splitter. he wanted to escape this unforgiving environment. his mother, at the very young age, and aunt and uncle came down with something called milk sick. a cow would wander to the forest. eat...
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exchanging information on regulations of energy solution and transportation in the marine environment and coastal areas. and our development. a year, the civil liberties. yes. the framework on sustainable growth, not is a question for the audience. >> then they need to take on issues of equality. >> inequality. yes. >> okay. interesting. some damage to ask you. you were present at the creation . now they're taking a stand on that as well. you want to talk about your thinking about that and how they have moved ahead toward? >> we did a paper in march of this year that quantified the fossil fuel subsidies large enough to be debilitating budget balance in fiscal sustainability of a number of countries, especially those in the middle east and africa and that the lack of taking action on externalities', energy pricing that does not take into account pollution, congestion, and effects on climate change, that these were very substantial in advanced economies, the united states and other advanced economies. our view is that addressing energy subsidies would bring very substantial benefits acr
exchanging information on regulations of energy solution and transportation in the marine environment and coastal areas. and our development. a year, the civil liberties. yes. the framework on sustainable growth, not is a question for the audience. >> then they need to take on issues of equality. >> inequality. yes. >> okay. interesting. some damage to ask you. you were present at the creation . now they're taking a stand on that as well. you want to talk about your thinking...
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the first of which is safety and the second, funding in the current fiscal environment. but i would caution us because if dwight eisenhower or president kennedy had thought about the funding priorities in getting to the moon, they would have said, no. but they didn't. they said, yes. and they were okay not to even live to see that accomplished. our challenge really has to be the same. and if we commit today to reach mars by 2030, we'll have more than a 15-year funding profile for planning and development to meet the challenges of accomplishing a complex mission. and if you think about that kindergartner today, that means that within that child's lifetime that child will get to experience what some of us, what i experienced when we did apollo and gemini and saturn. a 15-year funding window. the major scientific challenge will be to understand the impact of deep space missions on humans. not only will astronauts be traveling for long periods of time in compact space, but during long duration space travel, astronauts will experience dangerous solar storms and galactic cosmi
the first of which is safety and the second, funding in the current fiscal environment. but i would caution us because if dwight eisenhower or president kennedy had thought about the funding priorities in getting to the moon, they would have said, no. but they didn't. they said, yes. and they were okay not to even live to see that accomplished. our challenge really has to be the same. and if we commit today to reach mars by 2030, we'll have more than a 15-year funding profile for planning and...
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they already owned slaves, and the environment in the u.s. was such that slave mortality was not as high in southern plantations as it was in places like cuba or brazil where slaves didn't live long because of the environment and diseases. here in the u.s. if they were well treated, as well-treated as they could be, they would live for a decent life span. so explain -- slave owners thought it would increase the value of their slaves they own. so it was an odd coalition. >> you have a chart in your book here that shows -- i want to use the word importation of slaves. what does this show here, a real spike. >> a real strong spike in the number of slaves in the u.s., right before we ban it. everyone knew that as soon as the clock turned in 1808 that congress was going to ban the slave trade. >> the other half of your book is about the international human rights law. when did human rights laws start becoming part of this discussion on the slave trade. >> around the turn of the 19th 19th century. what is interesting is that people think that inter
they already owned slaves, and the environment in the u.s. was such that slave mortality was not as high in southern plantations as it was in places like cuba or brazil where slaves didn't live long because of the environment and diseases. here in the u.s. if they were well treated, as well-treated as they could be, they would live for a decent life span. so explain -- slave owners thought it would increase the value of their slaves they own. so it was an odd coalition. >> you have a...
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and then you had the environment issue. and it won, the senate dropped it. stunned howard baker. i mean, he wasn't ready for the vote. that was 1983. >> thanks. >> hey, mark. >> hi. you have been a national figure, but it's not my character to thank politicians. this is the second straight time i've thanked a politician. olympia snowe for seeing, after being against voting representation then finally voting for it. you have not neglected this place where you live for a long time. there are 630,000 people who don't have a vote. not even statehood, not even autonomy and sovereignty, that i just don't even have a vote. and this is a very accepting populace. i've lived here almost now 50 years, and i came from chicago where we vote metropolitan once on election day -- more than once on election day. [laughter] will you explain the psychology of accommodation and acceptance by really this group of very informed and otherwise enlightened people to accept their second or third class citizenship? and then finally, where is the spark to propel the citizens of the district of columbia to c
and then you had the environment issue. and it won, the senate dropped it. stunned howard baker. i mean, he wasn't ready for the vote. that was 1983. >> thanks. >> hey, mark. >> hi. you have been a national figure, but it's not my character to thank politicians. this is the second straight time i've thanked a politician. olympia snowe for seeing, after being against voting representation then finally voting for it. you have not neglected this place where you live for a long...
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it is all male, it is a hothouse environment that doesn't really allow young 19 or 20-year-old man with what we consider normal interactions certainly from the academy and the culture of the academy, it has changed so much about race and gender and so on. i would never argue and i do not think that anyone would argue that this is preponderance with bad behavior. but it is incumbent on the nation to deal with this. the 21st century is a different place when it comes to the role of women in our culture, including our institutional culture like the military academy. >> host: this is from bill, an e-mail about d-day. i know that there was plenty of intelligence covering normandie, so i echoplex that they were so prepared for the hedgerows, which hindered their advanced and increased casualties. >> that's a really good question. it is perplexing. part of the issue is that so much attention is paid to getting across the beaches, and we see this in the earlier innovations in north africa and the silly. the ballgame is initially to get a foothold. and consequently it is given to what comes next
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just as my generation seeing the cuyahoga river burn changed the way we thought about the environment. what if the great climate denial fraud will stand in the an annas of american scandals beside watergate and teapot dome and the corruption leading up to the great crash of 1929 -- as a dark smear across the pages of our american history? there was an iconic recruiting poster for world war i. i wish i had it with me but i don't. it's a picture of a fella sitting in his armchair with two little children and they're asking him, "daddy, what did you do in the great war?" and he's looking sadly out at the viewer of the poster because clearly he had not done his part in the great war. that was the message of that poster. "daddy, what did you do in the great war?" what if we have to be asked by our children and grandchildren when they are studying this disgraceful episode in their history classes, "mommy, what did you do in the great climate fraud?" "grandpa, what did you do in the great climate fraud?" why do i come every week to give these speeches? because these questions stick in my cra
just as my generation seeing the cuyahoga river burn changed the way we thought about the environment. what if the great climate denial fraud will stand in the an annas of american scandals beside watergate and teapot dome and the corruption leading up to the great crash of 1929 -- as a dark smear across the pages of our american history? there was an iconic recruiting poster for world war i. i wish i had it with me but i don't. it's a picture of a fella sitting in his armchair with two little...
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they think today it a different environment. we have issue like these. because of this, we can't be as open to immigration as we were in the past because of the issues. just like the point made in the book it's no different than 100 years ago. there's an intense campaign in the earlier 20th century carried out main by italians and communist who blew up to a dozen bombs across the united. targeting people like the attorney general of the united, and number use other public officials across the country at the time. people had a reaction that the that time. they said we can't have this type of thing. it's at the time when communists were marching across the world and having success in european union and the chaos. these people were seen as an extension that have. we need to close our border to try to block it out. it's no different than what we hear today about islamic terrorism and other issues like that when we take a look at the middle east. but what is even more astonishing is how a lot of our immigration policy makes it easier for national security thr
they think today it a different environment. we have issue like these. because of this, we can't be as open to immigration as we were in the past because of the issues. just like the point made in the book it's no different than 100 years ago. there's an intense campaign in the earlier 20th century carried out main by italians and communist who blew up to a dozen bombs across the united. targeting people like the attorney general of the united, and number use other public officials across the...
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almost all of these environments are less amenable than others, such as in southeast asia. others have become sights of resuscitation such as in iraq and north africa or the expansion such nasir ya and -- syria, mali, mauritania. al qaeda has recall caddized persons who are citizens of and residents in the united states and canada and inspiring and motivating them to engauge in terrorist acts whether on their own, such as oaccord in fort hood in 2009, or at the direction and behest of al qaeda senior leadership, such as the plot to stage suicide attacks on in the new york city subway in 2009, and the more recent plot in canada that wag was reportedly orchestrated by al qaeda commanders based in iran. the continuing challenge that the united states will face is that al qaeda's core ideology remains attractive both to a hard core radicals and also capable of drawing new at minorities into its ranks. al-awlaki is still a recruiter, and then the tsarnaev brothers, products of the violence in chechneya and roche. and the violence on women and children around the world is a salie
almost all of these environments are less amenable than others, such as in southeast asia. others have become sights of resuscitation such as in iraq and north africa or the expansion such nasir ya and -- syria, mali, mauritania. al qaeda has recall caddized persons who are citizens of and residents in the united states and canada and inspiring and motivating them to engauge in terrorist acts whether on their own, such as oaccord in fort hood in 2009, or at the direction and behest of al qaeda...
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it is all male, it is a hothouse environment. .. it. >> this is from an e-mail. >> i have always had an unanswered question about the d-day invasion in know there was plenty of intelligence covering all aspects of our release we perplexed that the allies were so unprepared for the headwind that increase casualty. do you have any insight? >> guest: thinks for the good question is perplexing. part of the issue is so much attention is paid to getting across the beaches and receive this with the year earlier invasions of with africa, sicily, the ball game initially is just a foothold and consequently what comes next in the case of normandy, yes, i read about how there are studies that recognize the american part of the invasion has a topographical oddity by farmers clearing fields and pushing rocks and debris than the wall would grow fines and trees and they are in penetrable that it reminds of the jungle of the south pacific even though there was a knowledge of this type of terrain, there had not been sufficient thinking by those who s
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officers more aware of suicidal symptoms they thank you are right you are taken added that structured environment in the go off to school or a job and it is not just the military but look at the aggregate numbers of unemployment among veterans you see it is higher totally and there's something wrong we deal with veterans after they finish their service. >> host: eisenhower's marshall estimated in december 80,000 servants from the european theater plus another 10,000 of squatters the equivalent of military fugitives was believed to be hiding often joining forces to peddle the rations from the stolen army truck hundreds vehicles a vanished every day parcelling everything for just $5,000. >> guest: there was a lot of bad behavior. no doubt about it and i think it is important to recognize all the brothers were valiant and sisters were virtuous is nonsense. there were 23,000 deserters and thousands of court marshals four felonies and hundreds of thousands for misdemeanors and this was quite common when hundred 30 soldiers executed for murder canned or rape during world war ii and french villages that
officers more aware of suicidal symptoms they thank you are right you are taken added that structured environment in the go off to school or a job and it is not just the military but look at the aggregate numbers of unemployment among veterans you see it is higher totally and there's something wrong we deal with veterans after they finish their service. >> host: eisenhower's marshall estimated in december 80,000 servants from the european theater plus another 10,000 of squatters the...
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or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials including the length uniforms. it's really interesting and one of the things that came through this strategic mistrust. for example in iraq and afghanistan a large number of american troops have been killed accidentally hit in the u.k. and nobody accept them thinks this is on purpose or the reason for a crisis between the u.s. and england that they said that anything between the u.s. and china notably the embassy balkan was taken as having been purposeful and it is accepted. what do you think are the main grounds for the chinese strategic mistrust for us and
or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials...